Well, we’re about a month away, we have tons of ideas and a rough itinerary (very rough) and we’re looking to buy the major airline tickets later this week.  The rough itinerary goes something like this:

Japan for 10 days, China for 3 or 4 weeks (depends on whether we include Tibet or wait until the fall for that), then to Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos and Thailand for about 2 months.  Thailand will hopefully include 2 weeks at Habitat for Humanity or some other charitable organization so it will be about 6 weeks of travel time to do Southeast Asia.  That should take us through the first week in July when we will fly to France for Remona’s wedding.  After the wedding, we will travel by train through part of Europe.  First to Amsterdam, then through Germany, Austria, Czech Republic, down the coast to Croatia and finally over to Italy.  We’ll be spending some time in Italy because we have a month in Rome where we will be in language school and then roughly another month traveling around the country (and practicing).  It should be around the end of September by then and we will fly home from Italy for a few weeks.  That will complete Leg 1 of the trip.

Leg 2 of the trip will start in early November, probably the first week.  We will go to Morocco, then Egypt and then on to India, Nepal and if we haven’t hit Tibet yet we will take a week after Nepal to go to Tibet.  After that we will fly to Malaysia to visit Remona and Jack (which they don’t know about) and then on to Bali.  From Bali we will go to Australia for about a month and then to New Zealand for a week-ish.  We will fly home from New Zealand some time in January of 2009.  That completes Leg 2 of the trip.

Leg 3 is simple but we haven’t completely worked it out yet – we’re going skiing for a couple of months out in Colorado (or in an unlikely scenario in Torino, Italy, for more language practice).

All of this is subject to change of course but we think this is pretty close to what we’ll be doing.  Anyway, nothing more for now…